Iran executes dozens of citizens, arrests over 4,000

Jr. Supreme "Leader"

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has accused Iran’s regime of dramatically intensifying its brutal crackdown on dissent in the wake of the February conflict. He warned that Tehran has unleashed a storm of executions, mass arrests, torture, and one of the longest internet shutdowns the world has ever seen, all while cowering behind the threadbare excuse of national security.

In a sharply worded statement from Geneva, Türk reported that at least 21 people have been executed and more than 4,000 arrested on national security-related charges since February 28. This comes as the regime faces growing international scrutiny over its sweeping assault on fundamental rights.

"I am appalled that, on top of the already severe impacts of the conflict, the rights of the Iranian people continue to be stripped from them by the authorities in harsh and brutal ways," Türk said. 

Since the conflict began two months ago, the U.N. noted that nine people have been executed over the January 2026 protests, 10 for alleged membership in opposition groups, and two on espionage charges. Estimates put the death toll from regime forces during January’s uprising at around 40,000.

Türk slammed Iran’s broad use of vaguely defined national security laws, which have allowed authorities to fast-track prosecutions, deny legal counsel, and rely on coerced confessions. "Even where national security is invoked, human rights can only be limited where strictly necessary and proportionate," he said. 

He called on Tehran to halt executions, impose a moratorium on capital punishment, and immediately release those arbitrarily detained. The chances of their cooperation is almost nil.

This is the grim reality of a regime that has never known restraint when it comes to its own people. The mullahs' grip on power has always been secured not by consent, but by the scaffold, the prison cell, and the calculated erasure of any voice that dares to challenge their theocratic tyranny. 

What we are witnessing is not mere "crackdown," a word too sanitized for such savagery, but the predictable reflex of a frightened, illegitimate power that understands its survival depends on terror. The figures are not abstractions; they are the broken bodies and silenced futures of Iranians who asked, in the simplest terms, for dignity. And still the world watches, offering statements while the nooses tighten.

Keep the pressure on, President Trump  and Prime Minister Netanyahu.

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BREAKING: Trump says female Iranian prisoners will not be executed as per his request

President Trump claimed on Truth Social that he was told by Iranian authorities the eight women who were to be executed tonight, Wednesday.

He said that four of the women will be released immediately and the others will be sentenced to one month in prison, he posted.

Trump claimed credit for the lifting of the death sentence, based on a previous post where he told Iranian authorities that not executing the prisoners would be a "great start to our negotiations."

Unfortunately, the executions have not been definitively stopped or confirmed as halted. That is, reports are conflicting and basically unverified as of today.

The eight women named are: Bita Hemmati, Panah Movahedi, Mahboubeh Shabani, Ensieh Nejati, Ghazal Ghalandari, Diana Taherabadi, Golnaz Naraghi, and Venus Hosseininejad. They were reportedly arrested in connection with the 2025–2026 Iranian protests against the regime. Some faced serious charges like security-related offenses or moharebeh (waging war against Allah), which can carry the death penalty in Iran, as can many other things such as being raped as a woman without witnesses; being an atheist, Jew, Christian and refusing to pay a tax (jizya), or drawing a picture of their so called prophet, Mohammed.

Human rights groups have raised alarms about unfair trials, torture, and a broader spike in executions, in which there has been more than 1,600 in 2025, while political cases are still ongoing.

Only limited cases (e.g., Bita Hemmati as a potential first female protester execution) had clearer confirmation of death sentences from independent sources; claims about all eight being imminently executed came primarily from activist accounts, such as one by Eyal Yakoby that circulated widely.

Iran's judiciary quickly denied the claims as "fake news," stating: No such imminent executions were planned. Some of the women had already been released. 

Others faced lesser charges that would at most result in imprisonment, not death, they claim. State media echoed this, rejecting President Trump's narrative. 

No independent verification of executions being carried out, stopped, or commuted for all eight. Human rights organizations (e.g., Amnesty International) have warned of risks to protesters but haven't confirmed mass death sentences or last-minute halts for this specific group.

So what is the truth? I guess we'll find out.

Final thought: it's very possible that Iran is lying to the public about this being fake news in order to make President Trump look foolish or simply look wrong. We don't know anything right now and hopefully we'll find out soon. I would never bet against President Trump when he makes a bold claim like this one.

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With no 2nd Amendment, Iran's government votes to kill 15,000 protesters as a 'hard lesson'

Following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a young woman arrested and allegedly beaten to death at the hands of her government for not wearing a mandatory head scarf, women all over Iran peacefully protested against what was done to her. Now, in a disgustingly horrific move, Iran's 'holier than thou' Parliament has voted to execute 15,000 protesters to teach the living a "hard lesson."

In late October, the Biden administration said it would be levying sanctions against 14 Iranian officials in response to the crackdown, but that only got the Iranian government to crack down even harder as the voted on Tuesday to kill 15,000 protesters who have been arrested.

And liberals wonder why we need a Second Amendment.

This is horrifying. The Iranian parliament votes overwhelmingly (227-63) to execute the 15,000 protesters they already arrested.

These were peaceful protestors simply seeking the right to basic justice and autonomy. Unacceptable and barbaric.https://t.co/7mMd2hIwTb

— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) November 14, 2022

Iranian journalist and activist [aren't they all] Masih Alinejad called on the international community to “stop this act of terror.”

227 members of the 290-seat Parliament in Iran have called on the Judiciary to issue death sentences for people arrested during the ongoing uprising.
They want to execute innocent protesters who chanted Woman Life Freedom.
The world must stop this act of terror.#MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/NoaCcG1n6h

— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) November 6, 2022

Of the 290 members of Iran's Parliament, 227 voted to kill the protesters as a way of spreading peace among the more Islamic worshippers who say the executions "would serve as a good lesson in the shortest possible time."

“Now, the public, even protesters who are not supportive of riots, demand from the judiciary and security institutions to deal with the few people who have caused disturbances in a firm, deterrent, and legal manner,” Iranian government spokesman and major scumbag Masoud Setayeshi said, according to Reuters.

Journalist Omid Memarian called upon the world to respond:

Outrageous! After killing 100s of protesters on the streets & a violent crackdown, 227 MPs in Iran called the protesters “Mohareb” & asked the judiciary to issue “retribution” sentences [execution]. The world should respond. Dangerous!#MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #IranRevoIution pic.twitter.com/CBdyE6mStS

— Omid Memarian (@Omid_M) November 6, 2022

On Monday, a Revolutionary Court in Tehran issued the first death sentence to a protestor. 

A court in Iran has issued the first death sentence to a person arrested for taking part in the protests that have engulfed the country, state media say, as reported by the BBC.

A Revolutionary Court in Tehran found the defendant, who was not named, had set fire to a government facility and was guilty of “enmity against God”.

Another court jailed five people for between five and 10 years on national security and public order charges.

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A human rights group warned authorities might be planning “hasty executions”.

At least 20 people are currently facing charges punishable by death, Norway-based Iran Human Rights said, citing official reports.

In response to the horrific situation, President Joseph R. Biden sucked on his wife's finger, Jake Sullivan wrote a nasty letter, and transgender women in the US military wore black ribbons on their collars.

You get what you voted for; good and hard.

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North Korea executed at least 7 people for selling or watching K-pop videos

According to a report, North Korea executed at least seven of its citizens over the past decade for either watching or selling K-pop videos. [H/T Fox News]

K-pop is short for Korean popular music that started in South Korea as part of their culture and is influenced by other genres and styles around the world such as pop, rock, gospel, jazz, reggae, R&B and more. Modern K-pop began in the 1990s as part of K-pop "idol" culture and grew into a subculture amassing a huge following of teens and young adults.

The recent and disturbing uncovering of the executions was documented in a new report titled "Mapping Killings Under Kim Jong-Un" and provided by a South Korean-based human rights group. The document uncovered at least seven executions in North Korea dating back to 2012 and was reviewed by Fox News.

Unafraid of any blowback from its citizens, the executions were often carried out publicly as a warning to others who might want to pretend they weren't [barely] living in one of the world's worst s**tholes under a corpulent dictator who would just as soon kill you as look at you. Kim would usually force family members of those to be executed to watch the deadly punishments, but it is not known whether former NBA player Dennis Rodman ever attended an execution.

The reported executions under fat Kim’s reign were mapped out with the help of 638 North Korean defectors who cooperated with the report’s authors.

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Last June, the New York Post reported that Kim launched a secretive anti-K-pop campaign to impose harsher penalties on citizens caught listening to the popular genre of music from South Korea. The evil dictator has called K-pop a "vicious cancer" corrupting the “attire, hairstyles, speeches, behaviors” of young people in North Korea.

But Kim's hairstyle is just fine . . . except for anyone else who dares to try sporting it.

Talk about culture wars--this is a real one.

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The Taliban: Bringing back those crazy, hazy lazy days of terror

Even his mother has problems with that face

Sharia, or Islamic law, will once again be reinstituted in Afghanistan so don't steal anything or they'll cut off your hand; don't wear the wrong clothing, or they'll beat the crap out of you or even stone you to death [depending on how much skin you show, ladies], don't be gay or lesbian or they'll throw you off of high places; don't be Jewish, an atheist, apostate or Christian because it will be a problem for you, and don't play music because it's forbidden. Hey, don't even be a woman because you'll have no human rights, although they will treat you like decent cattle. 

And if you're a dude who thinks you're a woman, or vice-versa, you're dead meat.

Yes, Biden's boys are back in town and things are gonna change back to abnormal. There will be public executions galore, amputation of hands, and on those cold, dark nights, who knows, they might even light a human on fire for questioning the ideology of Islam.

The Associated Press interviewed Mullah Noorudding Turabi who told them to chill out from their outrage  over the Taliban's history of executions, which sometimes took place in crowded sports stadiums. The religious leader warned the reporters against interfering with the religious leaders.

“Everyone criticized us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and their punishments,” Turabi told The Associated Press, speaking in Kabul, not a language but a city abandoned by the Biden administration, which left myriad Afghans to fend for themselves against the barbarians. “No one will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Quran.”

And while some people pretend that Islam isn't how Turabi describes it, the truth is that he's correct. Sharia does call for amputations and killing of non believers, gays etc., etc. Some call Islamists religious fanatics. No, they are religiously orthodox Muslims who are following the precepts of the Qu'ran to the letter. 

To think the Taliban was going to rule with a kinder, softer approach is dangerously naive.

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Turabi is in his early 60s and was justice minister and head of the Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice — we know them as the religious police — during the Taliban’s previous rule. These guys would look for violators of sharia: women not fully covered in cloth coffins, for example. They would beat these women in public with whips until they bled, and that's if the women were lucky enough to only be beaten, not killed by stoning.

Executions of convicted murderers were usually done with a single shot to the head, carried out by the victim’s family, who also had the option of accepting “blood money” and allowing the culprit to live. For convicted thieves, the punishment was amputation of a hand. For those convicted of highway robbery, a hand and a foot were amputated. 

Trials and convictions were rarely public and the judiciary was weighted in favor of Islamic clerics, whose knowledge of the law was limited to religious injunctions and the stuff they found in their beards.

Allah only knows what the punishment will be for a man peeing in public.

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Kim slays 'em

The one job more hazardous than being a New York City gypsy cab driver above 98th Street on the East Side, is being a political officer in North Korea.

The Hermit Kingdom is going full-guns on top political officers to prevent the regime from falling apart under incredible pressure caused by international sanctions, says General Vincent K. Brooks, the top commander in South Korea.

Speaking at the Wall Street Journal, Brooks said the people Kim is ordering as items for target practice are being accused of corruption. Recent reports suggest that a key figure of Kim Jong Un's inner circle was reportedly executed by death squad.

"We're seeing some increase in executions, mostly against political officers who are in military units, for corruption," Brooks said. "[The executions] are really about trying to clamp down as much as possible on something that might be deteriorating and keeping it from deteriorating too quickly."

Brook's comments came after rumors that Hwang Pyong-so, a vice marshal who held a top senior post in North Korea's military, was reportedly expelled and "punished" for "impure attitude." 

Hwang hasn't been seen since Oct. 13. South Korea's spy agency reported back in March that Hwang and his deputy, Kim Won-hong, were killed according to Yonhap News Agency.

Kim Won-hong was supposedly sentenced to a year in a NoKo prison camp. As for Hwang, many of Kim Jong Un's latest actions indicate that the one guy Kim Jong Un trusted for around ten years, has been executed, possibly be the same firing squad that killed Kim's uncle, Jang Song Thaek.

Gen. Brooks said that North Koreans are defecting via routes that were rarely used before, such as crossing the Demilitarized Zone. Two North Korean soldiers have defected through the Joint Security Area in less than a year, which was a way rarely seen previously.

But you can be sure, in spite of the immense international sanctions place against North Korea, their leader, Kim Jong Un, is not starving, only his people are.


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Kim's not so cuddly side

Don't let his boyish smile fool you. 

Just when you thought Kim Jong Un was a cute and cuddly bear of a sweetheart, it was revealed that he has been pulling teenage girls from North Korean schools and "doing a Mohammed" by making them his sex slaves.

While his people scavenge in trash cans or eat grass and baby pigeons, he lives a gluttonous life, stuffing his corpulent body with caviar, or $2,700 bird's nest soup and whatever else he wants, damn the cost.

Women who are imprisoned in North Korea for political crimes are raped at the hands of security guards, then later executed in a brutal fashion. Some trade sexual favors for reduced labor while in camps.

One defector, 29-year-old Park Ju-yong, "who grew up in a North Korean prison camp for more than two decades" said that women who became pregnant from being raped by guards are removed from camp and "secretly killed by guards."

Park said that after childbirth, the mothers are executed and their newborns babies are provided as food to guard dogs. [I can see eyebrows raised in curiosity at Planned Parenthood facilities across the U.S.] 

As punishment to the guards, they are removed from their jobs in the prison camps.

The executions, according to Park, were gruesome and involved "thousands of stones" a là Mohammed's punishment for adultery or for women showing their face, skin or hair in public.

The sick part with the executions is that it involved mandatory stone-throwing by other prisoners, and if they refused, they'd be stone receivers themselves.

"People would throw their rocks hard. Each time the rock would hit the victim, their bodies would burst with blood," Park said. "Their flesh would fall off until you could see their bones, and they would die without execution by gun."

A former NoKo prison guard who defected confirmed Park's claims about the executions and also said that the camps had both public and private executions and women who had sex with the guards were given "easier jobs" as a result.

The testimony came after an August report released by the State Department revealing that prisoners in North Korea are beaten to death and starved to the point of resembling "walking skeletons," "dwarfs," "cripples."

To get a graphic idea of how horrible that looks, see some of the images of Nazi death camps such as Auschwitz. 

Hee Yeon, fled Pyongyang in 2015. She now lives in Soeul and told The Mirror what it was like living in constant fear in the Kim Jong Un regime since he came into power in 2011.

"Despite our privilege, we were scared," she said. "I saw terrible things in Pyongyang."

She spoke of the time she stood in a crowd of 10,000 people assembled to witness the execution of 11 musicians who supposedly made a pornographic video [not, for example, a video of Kim Jong Un and his sex slave schoolgirls]. Security guards ordered viewers to leave their classes and stand in a stadium around the men who were tied and gagged.

"What I saw that day made me sick to my stomach. They were lashed to the end of anti-aircraft guns. A gun was fired, the noise was deafening, absolutely terrifying. And the guns were fired one after the other."

"The musicians just disappeared each time the guns were fired into them. Their bodies were blown to bits, totally destroyed, blood and bits flying everywhere . . . and then, after that, military tanks moved in and they ran over the bits on the ground where the remains lay."

She remembers seeing the remains "smashed . . . into the ground until there was nothing left." It took her three days before she could eat again.

Kim's firing squads carried out public executions in school yards, bridges and sports stadiums.

Just another of typical day of bizarre inhumanity in the Paradise known as North Korea. Anyone could be executed if they were even suspected of disloyalty to Kim.

"I was brought up [and] told he was like a god--that he was as a young boy an expert sailor, marksman before the age of seven, godlike," she said. "Then I met him at big events, I found him terrifying, really scary, nothing god-like about him."

Perhaps he's more godawful. 

Kim reportedly had his uncle, Jang Song Thaek, executed when he flew into a rage when finding out about an alleged coup that was planned with China.

Hee Yeon said the "prettiest" schoolgirls were taken away to work in one of his "hundreds of homes around Pyongyang."

"They learn to serve him food like caviar and extremely rare delicacies. They are also taught how to massage him and they become sex slaves," she explained. "Yes, they have to sleep with him and they cannot make a mistake or object because they could very easily simply disappear."


Like the musicians on the anti-aircraft guns.

Little is known about Kim's family but he's married to Ri Sol-ju and reportedly has three children, according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.

Trump refers to Kim as "Rocket Man" and swears it has nothing to do with Elton John's hit song title, which is nonsense.

Now knowing what Kim's all about, isn't it insanely suicidal for us to allow him to continue along a nuclear path?

The fat man must be stopped . . . and I don't mean Michael Moore.



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Iran tricks families of executed prisoners

This is the country we've made a nuclear deal with and President Obama believes is living up to the deal, as bad as it was in the first place--Iran, a place where chants of "Death to America," "Death to Israel" are a daily ritual.

And it's death that Iranians seem to excel in over all other things except for praying five times a day to their god they call Allah, the Pagan moon god.

The families of at least 20 Iranian prisoners scheduled for death by hanging were called by the Islamic government of Iran. They were told that this would be their last opportunity to say goodbye to their loved ones.

When they got to the prison, they were told to pick up the body of their loved one instead--they had already been hanged with some of them hastily buried. And the family members of those still above-ground were told to pick up the bodies at the prison morgue.

Coincidentally, all the dead were Sunnis while the large majority of Iranians are Sh'ite Muslims.

The government accused them of sundry crimes ranging from murder, bombings, robberies and undermining national security. (Thankfully, Hillary Clinton was never in Iranian government.)

Some of the prisoners were accused of participating in attacks by a Takfiri Salafist group known as "Monotheism and Jihad." Iranian intelligence authorities claim were responsible for two dozen attacks which killed 21 Shi'ites over a 2 year period.

The families of the prisoners and rights groups say the prisoners never received fair trials and they were tortured into making their confessions while liberals here opposed pouring water on the heads of terrorists in order to gain information that might save American lives.

One young Kurdish man, Shahram Ahmadi, 28, was tortured for 43 months while kept in solitary confinement. His charge was "emnity against God."

Kurdish lives matter.

Iran has a fine reputation of killing their prisoners and then notifying the family Shahin Gobadi said. Gobadi is a member of the National Council of Resistance in Iran Foreign Affairs Committee. "One explanation for this is that the regime is afraid of public backlash and protests outside the prison by families to halt the executions."

It should tell you pretty much all you need to know as to what kind of people the Iranian government is comprised of, and just how much we can trust them with the nuclear deal.

They even hate dogs.

The notion that human rights exists at all in Iran is as crazy as someone thinking the $400 million dollars we paid to them wasn't ransom money.



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Saudi Arabia; number 5 in world for executions

Saudi Arabia has been executing about one person every other day. Foreign nationals, who don't speak Arabic and therefore cannot adequately defend themselves, are disproportionately killed under the Islamic system known as Sharia. Children and the mentally ill are also victims of Sharia executions.

Sharia calls for the death penalty for drug trafficking, rape, murder, armed robbery and leaving Islam for any reason. Sharia also recommends killing gays and lesbians, either by hanging, beheading or throwing them to their deaths from "high places." If you are a woman and are raped, you need the testimony of 4 men to agree that it was rape or risk being stoned to death for adulterous behavior.

Of the top five countries that execute people for crimes committed, Saudi Arabia is 5th. Since the death of King Abdullah, the guy who our so-called president Obama bowed to back when he was still turning oxygen into carbon dioxide, there were as many as 143 executions back in 2007, and as few as 27 back in 2010, with the average around 100. 

This year, under King Salman, there has already been 110 people beheaded or shot for their  "crimes." The trials for these people are akin to kangaroo court proceedings. 

This past May, the Saudi government advertised for 8 job positions for executioners. It was made to sound like a civil service job with no experience necessary--amputations a plus. (Sharia law recommends amputating hands, for example, for pick-pocketing.)

This is Sharia law; this is what many Muslims in the West want to replace our system of law. 

But as bad as Saudi is regarding executions, King Salman at least had the temerity to snub Obama back in May for the U.S.'s strengthening of ties with Iran.

Sounds like they should also be snubbing Valeria Jarrett.




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